What is meant by the term 21st Century Skills? The following Word document gives a brief definition of what students will need to be able to do for success in this rapidly changing world of ours.

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Google Lit Trips

Check out this fun way to explore literature by linking maps to period footage, music, and much more!

How to Create Google Lit Trips

Google Historical Voyages and Events

Cyber Smart Lessons for Kids

Formative Assessment

SLO Resources
Assessment Projects

Next Generation Science Standards

Performance Task Specifications by SBAC

NAEP Questions Tool

Developing Performance Tasks

The formative assessment widget above was created using a cool program called Wordle!
Check it out in the link below.

Wordle

Wordle allows you to place text in and it will create posters of words, showcasing which are the most important.

Prezi

The new presentation tool available on the web.

Prezi How To

Here is a creative Prezi presentation sharing tips on how to use it!

Bubbl

This tool creates graphic organizers similar to Kidspiration.

Glogster

This site allows you to create interactive posters that can be shared with others.

Noodle Tools

This site is great for keeping track of resources when doing research. It makes bibilographies a snap!

DDN Curriculum

MTA Book Study

Ning PLC

Technology Standards to Edit for DOE

Add Examples on this wiki page.

Whole Brain Teaching

Kevin Honeycutt

Stop Bullying Now

This is from the US Department of Health and Human Services. It contains games, flash movies, and information about bullying and how to prevent it. This is a great resource for kids, parents, and teachers!

Internet4Classrooms-Grade 5

This site contains a wealth of skill building practice activities in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. It also contains an assessment component so children can be exposed to some practice tests!

Teaching That Makes Sense

This site from Steve Pacha contains a wealth of information in the Language Arts area. He has entire books available online with tips for reading, writing, assessing, etc. It is an excellent site to note!

All's Well That Spells Well

This is a PDF file that has some tips for teaching spelling. (From the TTMS site listed above)

Rubistar Rubric Maker

This is a great site for teachers who want to create rubrics for project based lessons, but do not want to reinvent the wheel. It's a great time saver and you can save rubrics for the future as well.

Thinkfinity

Free lesson plans and teacher resources! This free website is set up through Verizon. You can even search by STATE STANDARDS! Check it out!

Project Based Learning

This is a wiki that has listed sites recommended in the book, Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real World Projects in the Digital Age by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss. Check out this invaluable resource!

Group Participation Checklist

Aluminum Can Math Activity Lesson Plan

NCTM Illuminations

This is a K-12 website that includes activities and lessons plans that are correlated with the NCTM Mathematics standards.
It has lots of interactive games!

Sqooltube
Squooltube contains instructional videos geared for K-12 classrooms.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock is an educator extraordinaire who shares an array of resources in all content areas on this site.

Lee's Summit School District Technology Integration Site

Pete's Power Point Station
This site has links to Power Point presentations as well as online activities and games for various content areas.

http://www.pppst.com/index.html

Mr. Nussbaum.com - great site with links to all content areas

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/

Class Marker

Education World

This site contains a wealth of information for teachers!

WORDS THEIR WAY

WTW Games to Download

Bonkers Cards Free Download for WTW

Smack Down Game--Free

WTW Free Circle Game Board

WTW Tic Tac Toe Board

Great Downloads for WTW and Others

Great Handouts (ELL)

Words Their Way Sorting Activities from Literacy Connections

Lists from 5th Grade

HISTORY

Smithsonian Institute

Lincoln's Faces of War

Smithsonian In Your Classroom studies Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War.

Founding Fragments
Onco Mouse--genetically engineered to get cancer.

Start Small Teaching Guide from Teaching Tolerance

100 Milestone Documents

Library of Congress

American Memory (from the Library of Congress)

The National Archives

American Civil War Home Page

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

This site details life in two communities: one in the north, and one in the south. It contains a vast array of information, from historical photographs, maps, journals, letters, newspaper articles, census information, etc.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

Here one can find true accounts from actual slaves.

Historical Scene Investigaton (HSI)

Here students can investigate history in an innovative fashion!

Our Dynamic Earth: NASA Observes Our Ever Changing Planet

This 18 minute video clip from NASA explains our earth in detail!

Cycles of Earth Teaching Module

If you ever wanted more background information on earth science topics, here is a link to peruse.

SPACE SCIENCE INFORMATION

UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory hosts this site which contains standards based space science activities and curriculum for a variety of grade levels.

Jonathan Bird's Blue World

Bring the ocean to yoru classroom with this educational public television series! This site contains study guides and links to ten minute video clips!

NSF Special Report

The National Science Foundation has a series of informative video clips.

Teaching Strategy On Target Booklets from TIE

This is a great link where you can find a wealth of resources! Areas covered include reading strategies, test taking, writing across the curriculum and differentiation.